In January 2025, devastating wildfires broke out across Los Angeles County. In static, extended shots, we watch the disaster unfold before us. A powerful documentary about the consequences of increasingly extreme weather.

The legal conviction of a mountain guide who in protest sawed down three crosses high in the Swiss mountains, prompts more debate about the presence of Christian symbolism in the public space.

A hard-hitting investigation by Rafael Guendelman, whose family has both Jewish and Palestinian roots. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that large parts of history have been deliberately suppressed and erased.

When his sister, who lives with a neurodivergence, becomes pregnant, Quang, who is gay, decides to document the life of the traditional family he grew up in—a family weighed down by mutual disappointment.

Amid the chaos of the civil war in Syria, a Syrian activist-cameraman provides footage to a Lebanese journalist living in London. A story about love in times of war, revolution, and exile, and an award-winner at festivals including Sundance.

Affectionate portrait of 16-year-old George from Athens, a shy outsider with an eye condition who finds comfort in animals—people are complicated, but his cricket Isabella is much more reliable.

After Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia, six of his fellow fighters embarked on a seemingly impossible escape. The story is revisited through interviews with people involved at the time, including three former guerrillas, combined with archival footage and animation.

Amid the bombardments in Gaza, journalist and new father Osama documents the daily devastation with his camera and smartphone. People try to preserve their resilience and hope as they search the rubble for food and solace.

A meditative forensic investigation into the exploitation of women workers on Dutch colonial rubber plantations, contrasting what was spoken and recorded with what was systematically concealed.

Israeli filmmaker Anet Even returns to the kibbutz where Hamas sowed death and destruction on October 7, 2023. She documents the remains of her former home as well as the destruction of Gaza taking place on the other side of the barrier.

A young filmmaker and his friends relive their traumatic experiences of the protests in Hong Kong more than six years ago. The footage is indistinct, but its impact and the memories it evokes are indelible.

As the Jordanian capital Amman continues to encroach on their home, an Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family faces an impossible dilemma. Three generations each fight their own battle to survive in a relentlessly changing world.

Out of gratitude for the invention of gunpowder, used both to kill and to celebrate, this feverish animation takes you on a personal journey rich with ghostly illustrations.

In Mali, Sékou Timité wants to become a djeli like his father, a storyteller. He embarks on a journey to seek out master storytellers, while also grappling with the demands of modern times.

A glimpse into the creative mind of video artist Douglas Gordon, courtesy of filmmaker Finlay Pretsell. He engages in an empathetic dialogue with Gordon, who hijacks the directorial role in this unconventional portrait, peppering the film with confessions, insights, and blatant fabrications.

Edward Said (1935–2003) held world leaders to account, cut through dehumanizing language, and tirelessly spoke out against injustice. Archival material interweaves his personal and intellectual journey with the history of his homeland, Palestine.

When ski mountaineer Jim Morrison loses his partner Hilaree Nelson during a descent, her death only strengthens his resolve to ski down the world’s highest mountain. But Mount Everest doesn’t give in easily.

A captivating account of the power of civil resistance. In May 2021, hundreds of residents of an ordinary neighborhood in Glasgow rise up in protest when immigration officers threaten to remove two of their neighbors.

When actress-director Bárbara Mestanza sets out to find the man who sexually assaulted her and bring him to justice, she turns her trauma into art while confronting the question she can’t escape: why didn’t she do anything?

Should they embrace a traditional rural life or leave for the city? Three young men, lifelong friends, in an Armenian community in southern Georgia are torn between their own dreams and the expectations of home.

A breathtaking, visually striking record of the first boxing match for Tepito, a Mexican boy who dreams—together with his father—of becoming a professional boxer. Winner of the Palme d’Or.

During a confrontation in the forests of Argentine Patagonia, a young Mapuche activist was killed. The trial of those who shot him forms the backbone of a broader story about systemic state violence against the Indigenous population.

In 1988, Abdul Ahad Momand became the first Afghan in space. Clicking through old television footage, filmmaker Elham Ehsas connects Momand’s story and his own family history with that of Afghanistan.

Thirty-eight-year-old A Wen is a Chinese restaurant owner in Barcelona, a family man, and a former gangster. He is also the brother of filmmaker Xisi Sofia Ye Chen, who observes his struggle with this past and his search for help from Buddhist monks in China.

For ten years, this coming-of-age documentary follows Gabin, a sensitive teenager growing up in the French countryside. Between the expectations of his hardworking parents and his own dreams, he gradually finds his own path.

In Peru, anti-government protests in 2022 were violently suppressed; in Lima alone, demonstrators were monitored by 3,500 surveillance cameras. As a poetic act of resistance, a filmmaker takes to the virtual streets to erase the aggression.

On the island of Zuania, site of a former US military base, herds of feral horses roam the streets at night. Fiction and reality intermingle in this playful visual essay about (neo)colonialism and aggressive real estate speculation in the Caribbean.

With concrete as his guiding theme, John Wilson, through a stream of endless humorous observations, paints a portrait of New Yorkers trying to hold things together in a city that, like old concrete, is threatening to crumble apart.

Decades after the execution of poet and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, oil extraction still ravages Nigeria. His friend and comrade Nnimmo Bassey inspires a new generation of poets to fight repression and environmental destruction caused by oil companies.

Seven girls from Geneva are just beginning their adult lives. In their bedrooms, separately yet collectively, they revisit the TikTok dances, language, and memes that shaped their youth.

In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, childhood ends abruptly. Zahra and Zalgai, both twelve, are still enjoying their youth for now, with a children’s circus as their playground and refuge. But when they turn fourteen, everything will change.

In an intense and deeply personal family portrait with surreal elements, filmmaker Pepa Lubojacki explores the underlying causes of a pattern of addiction and mental health issues that run through her family.

On one randomly selected night in July 2025, 40 professional camera operators and 300 members of the public filmed nocturnal life at more than 60 locations across Ukraine. The result is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society at war.

For 25 years, Alessandra Sanguinetti followed the cousins Belinda and Guillermina in rural Argentina. As childhood games give way to youthful longings, a tender reflection on friendship and growing up unfolds.

Essay film about the non-Western oil-producing states that joined forces in 1960 to form the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The album Rhymes and Songs for OPEC, released to mark the organization’s 20th anniversary, serves as the guiding thread.

An energetic portrait of Michael Greenberg, who disrupts events with the activist group Climate Defiance in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election. However grim the political climate may seem, these idealists remain stubbornly hopeful.

In the archive of a Polish film school, a young Polish-Nigerian woman finds traces and echoes of her identity. This short film pieces together her portrait through a mosaic of fragments from student films.

The poetry of the everyday is embodied by a group of young Black fathers in Florida and the matter-of-fact way in which these friends take on the care of their children, laying bare their dreams for the future.

In Canada, winter ice is freezing later and later, and polar bears are increasingly seeking food in populated areas. The Canadian government relocates the problem by moving the animals to areas inhabited by Inuit people.

Punkie Johnson is loud, crude, and unapologetically herself. But with a breakthrough within reach, the question is whether mainstream audiences will embrace her too. An energetic, intimate portrait of a Black lesbian comedian with no intention of toning herself down.

In five compelling portraits of people close to her heart, filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani presents a poignant chronicle of decades of resistance to the regime in Iran. Between euphoria and despair, a glimmer of hope for revolution endures.

After his wife dies, 64-year-old Patrice takes a new direction in life and transitions to living as Lilou. In this intimate family portrait of loss and healing, Tom Fontenille follows his father’s transition over a four-year period.

The residents of an idyllic corner of Italy are struggling with the effects of mass tourism as it overwhelms their villages. The camera captures all the complications with warmth, humor, and an eye for detail.

In this hybrid film, Bruno Santamaría Razo reimagines his childhood in 1990s Mexico City. Around his eleventh birthday, he experiences queer love for the first time—and learns that his father has HIV.

Fascinating glimpse into the anachronistic world of the last finishing school for women on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where “Charlie,” played by an actor, quizzes her ambitious fellow students and learns the finer points of hyper-formal etiquette.

Unflinching and intimate portrait of Adelina, a transgender woman who leaves the Georgian village, where her parents kept her confined to the house, to build a life in the big city of Vienna. There, her glamorous expectations collide with harsh reality.

Hunor, a cheerful 14-year-old, lives with his family and their dogs near an ultramodern test track for autonomous vehicles. It turns out they are essential to its operation. Tradition, AI, and militarization meet in the Hungarian countryside.

In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd fights to preserve an unspoiled landscape. Meanwhile, her foster daughter is growing into a young woman determined to break a cycle of domestic violence that has lasted for generations.

After his death, Thomas Heise’s longtime collaborators shaped his final, unfinished film project into a biographical testament, guided by Heise’s intellectual visual language and precise observations of modern-day Berlin.

A French doctor seeks to settle permanently on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island, portrayed by this documentary-fiction film with a hint of magical realism. Will he be accepted there? A fascinating quest for paradise on Earth.

Argentine truck drivers live in their cabs as if on quiet islands in a hypnotic mosaic poised between fiction and nonfiction. A meditative series of glimpses into lives we would normally pass by without a second thought.

In diary-like form, jumping back and forth through space and time, bicultural filmmaker Viv Li searches for a home between traditional Beijing and queer Berlin, East and West, family and friends. A vivid self-portrait that moves between humor and tears.

Fourteen-year-old Qihuo lives in a remote mountain village in southern China. After getting her first period, she sets off on a long journey on foot with two friends to buy a ceremonial skirt: a symbolic step toward adulthood.

It’s 2023, and a US union representing transportation and warehouse workers is preparing to strike alongside 340,000 UPS employees. Their workload has been increasing faster than their wages, but some are still unsure whether to join the strike.

In suburban Canada, Wolf Ruck’s neighbors want him to mow his lawn. The city keeps sending violation notices but the former Olympic athlete has no intention of giving up his paradise. He decides to fight back.

Unflinching and affectionate portrait of twin sisters Emilija and Ona. Following the death of their mother, they are confronted with stark realities: their landlord wants to evict them from the New York loft where they grew up, and Ona is pregnant.

The construction of a highway in northwestern China causes a deep rift of opinion in a previously isolated village, splitting it in two. For four years, the filmmaker, who grew up in the village, follows the construction work and its consequences for the villagers, including his own family.